Alyson Courtemanch is currently an M.S. student in the Wyoming Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Wyoming. . Aly grew up in central Maine and graduated from St. Lawrence University in upstate New York in 2005 with a B.S. in Biology and Environmental Studies. While at St. Lawrence, she studied abroad for a semester in Kenya and returned a year later to conduct independent research for her senior thesis on land cover change after livestock exclusion on a Maasai group ranch. After finishing college, Aly took an internship studying agoutis and palm seed dispersal on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, and then worked for several years around Jackson Hole, Wyoming for Grand Teton National Park and the Wyoming Game & Fish Department on bison, black bears, elk, raptors, and sage grouse. For the past 3 years, Aly has been coordinating the Teton Bighorn Sheep Project in collaboration with the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Grand Teton National Park, and Bridger-Teton and Caribou-Targhee National Forests. This project encompasses her two main interests: large mammal research and management and the human dimension of wildlife conservation, both of which she would like to continue to pursue in her future career. She also developed a blog for the project that aims to provide information to the public about project goals and progress. Aly also helped conduct an analysis examining bighorn sheep translocation in Devil's Canyon, Wyoming in collaboration with the...
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